China – how "loose" can policy be?
Yesterday's BIS credit data for Q2 show why shifting to "loose" monetary policy isn't simple. The loosening of 2008-09 kicked off a rise in credit that hasn't stopped even though policy since then has been "prudent", and that in turn been a big obstacle to policy officially turning loose again.
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